Western Civilization II / Unit 9 WC2 0825 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Closer Together: Holidays, Newspapers, Standard Languages, and Capitals
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The idea
Railways ended localism: middle-class seaside holidays, cheap presses and mass newspapers spreading the capital's standard language over dialects, and capital cities growing enormous. Revolutions became revolutions of one city, Paris in eighteen thirty and forty-eight, read about afterward.
In practice
London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, St. Petersburg.
Where people slip
Unit 10's revolutions are this entry's cities.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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